The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment
The Iranian #MeToo movement was a crucial form of resistance, with ordinary Iranian women sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in the public sphere of digital media. This is the first book of its kind providing a comprehensive analysis of the Iranian #MeToo movement.

Based on archival, empirical, ethnographic, literary and cultural research, the contributors discuss the abuse of women and society's responses to it. Contextualizing the historical framework of Iranian MeToo activism within larger Iranian feminist movements, as well as the historical background within the context of Middle East, the contributors address how the privileged position of men who have been outed as rapists, helps them to aggregate social, political, sexual, and economic capital through various networks in order to delegitimize the narratives of survivors. The volume also covers the intersections of various systems of oppression specifically highlighting marginalized voices. The contributors highlight the power dynamics within digital feminist networks in Iran and its unique attributes due to political, social, and religious structures. The volume ends with a chapter focusing on cultural productions, specifically cinematic works, through which some filmmakers have challenged normalizations of
sexual harassment by offering alternative discourses which have arguably paved the way for the #MeToo in Iran movement.
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The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment
The Iranian #MeToo movement was a crucial form of resistance, with ordinary Iranian women sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in the public sphere of digital media. This is the first book of its kind providing a comprehensive analysis of the Iranian #MeToo movement.

Based on archival, empirical, ethnographic, literary and cultural research, the contributors discuss the abuse of women and society's responses to it. Contextualizing the historical framework of Iranian MeToo activism within larger Iranian feminist movements, as well as the historical background within the context of Middle East, the contributors address how the privileged position of men who have been outed as rapists, helps them to aggregate social, political, sexual, and economic capital through various networks in order to delegitimize the narratives of survivors. The volume also covers the intersections of various systems of oppression specifically highlighting marginalized voices. The contributors highlight the power dynamics within digital feminist networks in Iran and its unique attributes due to political, social, and religious structures. The volume ends with a chapter focusing on cultural productions, specifically cinematic works, through which some filmmakers have challenged normalizations of
sexual harassment by offering alternative discourses which have arguably paved the way for the #MeToo in Iran movement.
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The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment

The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment

by Claudia Yaghoobi (Editor)
The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment

The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment

by Claudia Yaghoobi (Editor)

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The Iranian #MeToo movement was a crucial form of resistance, with ordinary Iranian women sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in the public sphere of digital media. This is the first book of its kind providing a comprehensive analysis of the Iranian #MeToo movement.

Based on archival, empirical, ethnographic, literary and cultural research, the contributors discuss the abuse of women and society's responses to it. Contextualizing the historical framework of Iranian MeToo activism within larger Iranian feminist movements, as well as the historical background within the context of Middle East, the contributors address how the privileged position of men who have been outed as rapists, helps them to aggregate social, political, sexual, and economic capital through various networks in order to delegitimize the narratives of survivors. The volume also covers the intersections of various systems of oppression specifically highlighting marginalized voices. The contributors highlight the power dynamics within digital feminist networks in Iran and its unique attributes due to political, social, and religious structures. The volume ends with a chapter focusing on cultural productions, specifically cinematic works, through which some filmmakers have challenged normalizations of
sexual harassment by offering alternative discourses which have arguably paved the way for the #MeToo in Iran movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780755647279
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 08/24/2023
Series: Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. She is the author of Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Literature and Film (2020) and Subjectivity in 'Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (2017).
Claudia Yaghoobi is is Roshan Institute Professor in Persian Studies and Director of the Centre for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation

Prologue: #MeToo Movement and Redefining the Private Sphere Ziba Jalali Naini
Introduction: Bodies, Spaces, and Places Claudia Yaghoobi

1 Like a Wrapped Chocolate: The Islamic Republic's Politics of Hijab and the Normalization of Sexual Harassment Esha Momeni
2 The Iranian #MeToo and the Double Bind of Iranian Feminism: Between Religion, the Global Gender Struggle, and Liberal Feminism Dilyana Mincheva and Niloofar Hooman
3 Rhetorical Listening to the Iranian #MeToo Movement in Diaspora Yalda N. Hamidi
4 Structural and Material Considerations and the Nexus of Power and Sexuality in the Iranian #MeToo Movement Mahdi Tourage
5 Twitter Data Analysis on #MeTooIran Yasamin Rezai and Mehdy Sedaghat Payam
6 #Unveiling_the_Iranian_MeToo: Symptomatic Reading of Iranian MeToo through the Lens of Political Economy Paria Rahimi
7 Whose Voice Is Missing? MeToo Digital Storytelling on Instagram and the Politics of Inclusion Golnar Gishnizjani
8 Sexual Violence, MeToo, and Iranian Lesbians' Censored Voices Mahdis Sadeghipouya
9 The White-Collars' New Masculinities in #MeToo: How to Maintain Gendered Privileges? Somayeh Rostampour
10 Hush! Girls Don't Scream (2013) by Puran Derakhshandeh and the #MeToo Movement in Iran Maryam Zehtabi
Afterword: Patriarchalism, Male Abuse, and the Sources of the #MeToo Movement in the Muslim Middle East Roger Friedland, Janet Afary, and Charlotte Hoppen

Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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